# Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Denmark in October 2023 ## Vaekstfonden - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Vaekstfonden – The Danish Growth Fund – is the Danish state's investment fund. We strive to improve access to risk capital to enable Danish businesses to innovate, and to generate growth and new jobs. In close collaboration with banks and domestic and international private investors, we finance companies from all sectors nation-wide. We canaccompany you for the entire journey – from your company’s infancy through growth phases to expansion abroad and even to an initial public offering. ## Sune Alstrup - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe ## Seed Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS Seed Capital invests in Danish tech businesses with global ambitions. We are focused on "late seed"-stage companies, typically investing 1-3 MEUR in rounds of 1-6 MEUR. Proud backers of Trustpilot, Vivino, Lunar, Templafy, Dixa, Forecast, and many other great companies. ## PreSeed Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS PreSeed Ventures is the biggest and most succesful early stage investor in Denmark. For more than 20 years, PreSeed Ventures have assisted and financed talented entrepreneurs with early-stage investments, and we hold more than 70 companies in our portfolio. ## Kasper Grundtvig Knokgaard - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Education Kasper Knokgaard joined EQT Partners in August 2007 and has since worked in the Copenhagen, New York and Munich offices.Prior to joining EQT Partners, Mr Knokgaard worked with McKinsey & Co., latest as Engagement Manager, in the Copenhagen office. Mr Knokgaard mainly focused on private equity and corporate finance related projects.MrKnokgaard holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Business Administration and Management Science from Copenhagen Business School. During his study he also spent one semester at IIMA in India and participated in a 2 month entrepreneurial program in Silicon Valley, California. ## Founderment Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Travel, Software, Marketplace Founderment Ventures is an investment firm. ## byFounders - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries. With its unique Collective of founders and operators, byFounders offers its portfolio operational expertise and a global network. Believing in the power of tech to shape our future, byFounders takes an impact-aware approach to investing and working with the broader startup ecosystem. ## Mikal Hallstrup - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Lifestyle, E-Commerce Mikal H. is the Co-founder at Offset Motorcycles. He attneded Arkitektskolen Aarhus. ## Nordic Eye Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS International venture capital firm based in Copenhagen. We come from the North, but we work in the world. We are Nordic Eye. ## Tommy Ahlers - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Analytics, Social Media, SaaS Tommy Ahlers is a Danish serial entrepreneur and CEO of the Danish software startup, Podio, which Tommy joined Podio as CEO and angel investor in August 2010. Podio connects work processes and interactions in an online environment, Prior to joining Podio, Tommy Ahlers founded the networking and mobile backup site ZYB in 2005 and sold it toVodafone Europe BV for nearly $50m in May 2008. Ahlers holds a masters degree in law from the University of Copenhagen, graduating in 2000 and was previously with McKinsey & Company for more than four years, where he served as an engagement manager.Ahlers is a regular on the technology startup conference circuit, speaking at the likes of Mobile 2.0 Europe, DLD, the European Directory Marketplace Conference and TheNextWeb. ## Blue Lime Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Events, Boating Blue Lime Labs co-creates start-ups by investing required resources in taking ideas to market. We invest in great people with innovative B2B ideas that can be sold globally.Blue Lime Labs is looking for sales oriented entrepreneurs with our without ideas, that have the drive and commitment to create a B2B venture from zero to one.To becomeyour partner and co-owner in developing an early-stage idea to meet the market. We commit to invest required human capital resources into pre-revenue ideas to develop a MVP and make financial injections to ideas that have secured at least few clients and started generating revenue. We are here to become your early-stage reliable co-founders that are able to provide required product development resources and capital to firmly enter the global market. ## Heartcore Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Heartcore Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm devoted to backing founders building category-defining consumer internet brands.Founded as Sunstone Capital in 2007, Heartcore has raised over $500 million in committed capital across four fund generations. The firm has offices in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Paris but invests across Europe andoccasionally in the United States. Heartcore has backed more than 70 exceptional founding teams. ## Mia Wagner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Finance, Women's Mia Wagner ## Evolvo Group Investments ApS - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Lifestyle, E-Commerce Evolvo Group Investments ApS ## Christian Schwarz Lausten - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Lifestyle, E-Commerce Christian Schwarz Lausten ## Klaus Nyengaard - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps Klaus Nyengaard is the co-founder and Chairman of GenieBelt, a SaaS-based platform that develops project management software. He is also co-founder of the investment club, Nordic Makers. He serves as the co-chairman of Treatwell, a beauty and wellness community marketplace. Nyengaard has previously been CEO & Chairman of Just-Eat pre-IPO, andbuild a number of tech companies. In 1994, Klaus Nyengaard graduated from Aarhus University with a specialized degree in economics and management. ## Creandum - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond. ## People Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Taastrup, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Internet of Things, Software People Ventures are your dreamcast team of co-founders, investors, executives, engineers, academics and industry experts. Together with talented entrepreneurs — We shape fantastic businesses through operational and commercial execution. ## Innovation Fund Denmark - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Innovation Fund Denmark invests in the development of new knowledge and technology creating growth and employment in Denmark. The Fund focuses on societal challenges, strengthens research, and increases innovation commitment within private companies.The Fund provides risk capital that enables cutting-edge initiatives to achieve resultssubstantially impacting the Danish society. Innovation Fund Denmark is also responsible for the future societal partnerships, where companies, universities, and public authorities will work together on challenges facing the society today. ## Alexander Aghassipour - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Founder at Zendesk. ## Anders Boelskifte Mogensen - Type: Angel - Location: Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Lifestyle, E-Commerce Anders Boelskifte Mogensen ## Morten Primdahl - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Virtual World, Information Technology Morten brings to Zendesk a refined focus on the technical details. He’s involved on all technical levels – from the application to the infrastructure components and databases.Prior to co-founding Zendesk, Morten consulted on a number of technology projects, ranging from helping startups establish a technical platform, to doing heavy dutyconsulting for online banking systems.Morten earned a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Copenhagen. ## Christian Stadil - Type: Angel - Location: Denmark, South Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Social Media, EBooks My core business philosophy is built on the idea of thinking “we before me” – to move from a narrow perspective and to think of the bigger picture. Therefore it may appear quite contradictory to launch a personal website which, regardless of perspective, revolves and turns around one self. But my aim with this website is to branch out beyondmy usual activities, while simultaneously using the site as a digital connection to my businesses within the Thornico Group (www.Thornico.com). Within this company we are involved in shipping, technology, the food industry, real estate, fashion and sports. All the mentioned companies share the core values of Company karma. This site should give an insight into what inspirations that lies behind the value based approach and the way we overall do business in the Thornico group. Hopefully, the website also provides a needlepoint into what has shaped and formed my other more private lifestyle choicesIn addition to this, the site will function as a distribution network in terms of information and news in regards to my books, when and where I give lectures and talks. I will share content, interests, personal thoughts and sources of inspiration here. ## Sunstone Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A, Series B - Focus: Information Technology, Hospital, Events Sunstone Partners is a new investment fund focused on growth equity investments and majority buyouts in technology businesses in North America. The team previously worked together at Trident Capital, a multi-stage investment firm with seven funds and $1.9 billion under management since 1993.The firm is currently investing out of SunstonePartners I, LP, a fund with $310 million of committed capital. Sunstone Partners invests in both sizable minority positions and control transactions.Sunstone Partners was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. It was previously known as TC Growth Partners. ## Green Visor Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Green Visor Capital invests in, and works with, passionate entrepreneurs that use innovative technology to solve substantive issues in financial services and do so in a socially responsible manner, which we believe will generate large-scale shareholder value.Green Visor Capital was launched in late 2013 and its general partners include JoeSaunders, the former Chairman and CEO of Visa, Inc., the world's largest payments company. ## Tom Ryan - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Music, E-Commerce, Mobile Tom Ryan is CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. Pluto TV carries and programs more than 250 live channels and thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows in partnership with hundreds of major TV networks, movie studios,publishers, and digital media companies. Each month over 36 million viewers tune in to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons, and trending digital series on mobile, web, and living room devices. Pluto TV is a top free app on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Android mobile, and also powers built-in streaming television services on Vizio LG, and Samsung smart TVs. Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music as well as co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France. ## Fiona Pathiraja - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen. ## Dawn Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies. ## Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Gaming Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) is a venture capital firm with a portfolio of investments in the Information and Communications Technology. ## Tommy Andersen - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, EdTech, Virtual World Tommy Andersen is the founder and Managing Partner of byFounders. ## RB Investments Pte. Ltd. - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Food Delivery RB Investments is a Singapore Based Family Office , that invests in people with visionary ideas. We assist portfolio companies in developing and executing strategic growth, building the board and executive management team, exploring capitalization structures, pursuing growth mergers and acquisitions, and enhancing market presence. ## Lars Seier Christensen - Type: Angel - Location: Jonschwil, Ausser-Rhoden, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Communities Lars seier Christensen is the chief executive officer of Saxo Bank, an online trading and investment specialist that enables clients to trade forex, CFDs, stocks, futures, options, and other derivatives. ## Errol Damelin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010. ## Sustainable Ocean Alliance - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Sustainability, CleanTech, Marine Technology SOA develops leaders, cultivates ideas, and accelerates solutions to the biggest problems facing our ocean through the Leadership and Accelerator programs ## Seier Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berne, Bern, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Internet, Financial Services, Apps Seier Capital is a private investment fund owned 100% by Lars Seier Christensen. ## Morten Strunge - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Beauty Morten Strunge is the current Co-Founder of Nexta.io. He previously worked at Storytel AB as a Board Member. ## Robin Daniels - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Security, Software, Lifestyle Robin Daniels is a Scout for Great Companies and Great Talent at Sequoia Capital. He attended Niels Brock. ## Jesper Buch - Type: Angel - Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, Internet, Software Jesper book is the Seed Investor at DIBB Design. ## JTB Corp. - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism One the most biggest company in Japan dealing with tourism. ## Sequoia Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet We help the daring build legendary companies. ## 10x Value Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software 10x Value Partners is one of the world‘s best early stage investment firms based on blended IRR. We make selected investments in companies where we can move the needle and provide an unfair advantage to the business. ## New Theory Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Finance, Women's New Theory is a private venture fund that invests, incubates, and accelerates trailblazing female-led brands ## Hampus Jakobsson - Type: Angel - Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016. ## True Growth Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Financial Services True Growth is a Berlin-based group of founders who actively invest into outstanding entrepreneurs. Over the past two decades, we have built several internationally leading companies and sold them to global players. We leverage our operational experience and dedicate a significant amount of time to supporting our portfolio companies. ## Burda Principal Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies. ## Stefano Mezzadri - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Events, Battery, CleanTech Stefano Mezzadri ## Lifeline Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland. ## David Helgason - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen. ## VentureFund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 Venture Fund’s primary objective is to mentor and fund quality ideas and start ups by introducing them to qualified investors from around the world. ## Jason Calacanis - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co